Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobby was then headed by 1 ) Colonel Luke Lea who presently returned to Tennessee and ultimately went to jail in North Carolina, and 2 ) Major Taylor's law partner, Thomas Miller, who subsequently became Alien Property Custodian and served a term in the Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiring to defraud the U. S. Government. Major Taylor took up where they left off. He fumigated the lobby to get rid of unsavory odors left by his predecessors and buckled down to business in a way they had never dreamed...
...Chicago on Oct. 2, after more than two years' preparation, the U. S. Government put Samuel Insull, Samuel Insull Jr., and 15 of their associates on trial for using the mails to defraud. In the courtroom a 22-ft. bookcase held two tons of Government exhibits. Two hundred Government witnesses were summoned. Two million words of testimony were taken in the two-month trial. After the first two weeks the jury had pretty well made up its mind. And last week the trial ended. For two hours and two minutes the jurymen deliberated, and then, filing back into...
...through the mails in selling stock were unjustified. It triumphantly produced two difficult algebraic equations to prove that Corporation Securities stock was not worth what Mr. Insull had said it was. But the small businessmen of the jury did not believe that the laws against using the mails to defraud were framed to catch poor mathematicians. The prosecution's evidence was not the kind to convince the jurymen that Samuel Insull and friends were financial charlatans...
...which was discerned the fine Connecticut hand of Homer Cummings. It revived the old tax evasion charge, added a 50% indemnity for fraud, this time demanded $3,075,103 in back taxes and penalties. It openly accused Mr. Mellon of using his knowledge of income tax machinery to defraud the Government whose servant he was. "It is quite clear," said old Mr. Mellon, "that in my case the Treasury is not so much interested in the collection of revenue as in attempting to discredit...
...Chicago early last month, the U. S. Government set out to prove in Federal court that Samuel Insull and 16 co-defendants had used the mails to defraud investors in his Corporation Securities Co. of some $100,000,000 in nine months. To win conviction, the prosecutors had to show that Insull & friends had deliberately traded back & forth the stocks of affiliates and subsidiaries, had declared unwarranted dividends, had recklessly juggled the assets of the Insull utility empire to give them an apparent value far above their real value. For 23 court days the prosecution and its corps of expert...